Travel Gadgets Fill the Time!
Road trips in minor league baseball can be very boring because of the amount of time spent in your hotel room. The bus to the field is not until 3:30 or 4 o’clock. So if the average player wakes up at 10 am he has almost 6 hours everyday to fill. Some of this time is spend at the gym doing workouts, but most is spent as leisure time. That is why the technology or gadgets that you travel with are so important.
Laptop computers are probably the most popular items to travel with. Many hotels provide wireless internet which allows contact to the outside world. They also are used for playing music, watching DVDs as well as computer games. Another device that many players carry is an iPod, such as this model which has both the video and audio. 
With all of the bus time and hotel time, the iPods are extremely popular with the players as well as some coaches. Playstations and XBOXs are very popular as well. Many hours are spent playing the new games whether it be NCAA football or Halo. Lastly one of the other favorite items are good old fashioned books. These books range from The DaVinci Code to fiction to history all the way to crossword and soduku puzzles.
Given our schedules, we as players must find a way to occupy our leisure time with some sort of entertainment. The new technology has really made it much easier because even 10 years ago many of the devices that we use were not even available. Also with 25 people per team there is always someone with the new and hot technology–surprisingly quickly many people follow that person’s lead.
Your baseball pro, Steve
P.S. Steve fills me on which gadgets work and which don’t, particularly cell phones. Of course, all of these are portable since players live out of suitcases!
Filed By: Jean Bedord | July 25, 2006 |
